Abby
Abby reached its high-water mark in 2003 at number 164, and has been recorded 62,036 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 731st. About 60,000 Abbys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Abby boys named Abby
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 62,036
- Estimated living today
- 60,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 164th
- Rank in 2025
- 731st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 61,855 / 181
How old the living Abbys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 62,036 babies given the name since 1880, about 60,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Abbys
- Abby Wambach (born 1980)American soccer player
- Abby Ryder Fortson (born 2008)American actress
- Abby Elliott (born 1987)American actress
- Abby Dahlkemper (born 1993)American soccer player
- Abby Dalton (1932–2020)American actress
- Abby Stein (born 1991)Israeli-American author, rabbi, activist
- Abby Bishop (born 1988)Australian basketball player
- Abby Martin (born 1984)American journalist
People named Abby with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abby is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abby is most concentrated in South Dakota (2.4×), Utah (2.2×), Iowa (2.2×), Minnesota (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular girls’ names the year Abby peaked:
Abby elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Abby | 4,790 | 100th |
| France girls | Abby | 3,200 | 240th |
| Scotland girls | Abby | 1,701 | 35th |
| Ireland girls | Abby | 1,165 | 55th |
| New Zealand girls | Abby | 503 | 59th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Abby | 268 | 62nd |
| Belgium girls | Abby | 199 | 541st |
| Switzerland girls | Abby | 105 | 687th |
| Poland girls | Abby | 7 birth registrations | 594th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Abby: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Abby | 29 | 0.002% | 768th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Abby | 75 | 0.017% | 269th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Abby | 1 | 0.002% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Abby is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Abby: rank by region
In 2025, Abby was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Abby | 242 | 11 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Abby appears in the lists for Province of Namur (79th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Abby by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Abby among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Abby | 11 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Abby lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 251 women called Abby were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Abby | 6 | 0.035 | 1,669 |
| Pontevedra | Abby | 15 | 0.031 | 1,366 |
| Coruña, A | Abby | 14 | 0.024 | 1,548 |
| Palmas, Las | Abby | 12 | 0.020 | 3,267 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Abby | 16 | 0.016 | 2,974 |
| Balears, Illes | Abby | 10 | 0.016 | 2,936 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Abby against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.